Button attachment



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BUTTON ATTACHMENT.

No. 252,244. Patented Jan. 10,1882.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

1 CHARLES NEWBURGH, OF BELOIT, WISCONSIN.

BUTTON ATTAC H M EN-T.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,244, dated January 10, 1882. Application filed August 10. 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, CHARLES NEWBURGH,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Beloit, in the county of Rock, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button Attachments, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is an outside or front view of a button provided with one form of my improved attachment ready for application to the cloth. Fig.2 is a section on the line as x in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front or outside view of a modified form, including a greater number of clinchers. Fig. 4 is a'lower end view of the modification shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section similar to Fig. 2,- showing another modification, in which rivets are used instead of clinchers.

The'same letters denote the same parts in all figures.

My invention relates to means for the attachment of buttons to clothing and the like; and it consists in a strap firmly attached to the button, and provided with twoor more fastenings or sets of fastenings at different points of its length; and it further consists in the several devices and combinations of devices which will be fully described hereinafter, and definitely pointed out in claim,

the objectbeing to provide forfa stening the button to the cloth at two or 'more distinct points, and also to provide a means whereby two or more pieces of cloth-such, for example, as the waistband and body of a pair of trowsers-may be securely held together against any tendency to rip.

In the drawings,A denotes a button having a shank, B, connected with part of its periphery, the shank bcin g bent into a direction par allel with the button on the inner or lower side of the latter, according to a construction already well known. This shank is extended in a direction parallel, or nearly so, to the button, in the form of a strap, 0, of sufficient length and breadth to admit of'a triangular clincher, D,-being cut out of it on two sides, (the base remaining joined to the strap,) and 0 bent up against the flat outer surface of the strap or shank. At its lower end the strap a considerable distance above the lower edge of the waistband, while the lower clincher is wholly in contact with the piece of cloth which forms part of the leg of the garment.

For attachment to the cloth the clinchers are first bent at right angles, or nearly so, to the surface of the strap, as shown in Fig. 1

and more plainly in Fig. 2. They are then. driven clear through the cloth from inside to outside, and are then bent up against the outer surface of the cloth, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2.

I thus obtain a simple, cheap, speedily-applied, and perfectly secure attachment of the button to two points of the cloth. As already stated, one of these points in the case of a Suspender-button may conveniently be on the waistband and the other on the leg-piece, thus holding the two pieces firmly together, so that a rip will be impossible. The attachments of the back buttons will also serve to fasten the buckle-straps to the garment.

In overalls the pocket is usually formed in part by a flap which is sewed at the uppermost corner to the piece below it, a button being also usually set on at that point. By the use of my attachment at that point the pocket will evidently be secured against any possibility of ripping open there, and an incono venienee which is now a very frequent occurrence will thus be done away with.

it is obvious that the number of clinchers may beincreased, both lengthwise and breadthwise of the strap, without at all affecting the 5 principle of my invention.

Fig. 3 of the drawings shows a modified form of attachment, in which there are two sets of three clinchers each, the strap being widened sufficiently to afford material for forming the two outside ones, and also to afford a hard surface to support that part of the cloth against which they are bent in fastening. Fig. 5 shows another modification in which, instead of cutting clinchers out of the strap, it is simply perforated to admit of the passage of rivets E, by which the shank may be fastened to the cloth.

In order to facilitate the flattening of the outer end of the rivet, a washer, 0, may advantageously be set on the rivet outside of the cloth, so as to afford a hard surface against which the end of the rivet may be hammered. This form of attachment will obviously present a neater appearance, but will be more expensive. In this form the strap may be conveniently made of leather or similar material, as well as metal.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the buttonA and bent shank B, forming a hook, the strap 0, provided with means for fastening it to the fabric at several points in its length, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHARLES NEWBURGH.

Witnesses:

S. J. TODD, J NO. 0. R001). 

